“General Admission ticket prices have increased for the first time in seven seasons, with most seats going up no more than 10 percent,” the Redskins noted in last week’s press release.

The implication, of course, was that some seats would go up by more than 10 percent, as some plan holders have been discovering.

“My tickets (which have been in my family for almost 50 years) went up over 40% this season!” one plan holder wrote to me. “I have never seen such a price hike – and I am a season ticket holder of the Wizards and Nats, too.”

His seats indeed went up just over 40 percent this season, from $1089 per seat for 10 games (including two in the preseason) to $1529 per seat for the same 10 games. See last year’s invoice below, and this year’s invoice above.

A Redskins spokesman confirmed that 704 season ticket holders were invoiced a 40 percent increase. All the seats involved were mid field lower-level “prime seat locations.”

The advantages of having an exciting, competitive team are many... of course, the disadvantages include that the ownership knows that SOMEONE will buy the better seats at any price, in order to watch these games...

...it's also exploiting a fanbase that tolerated this owner's ineptitude and steaming pile of turd for a product over the last several seasons. Now that there's something to get excited about... prices shoot up.

It's kinda like the firearms market right now. Demand is high, so many retailers are jacking prices up sky high to take advantage. It's all perfectly legal, it's supply and demand, it's the market, blah blah blah... but consumers will remember who gouged and who didn't.

I've been on the fence about making the trip down to DC for a game. Definitely watching from home next season.

I have a hard time seeing how anyone thinks that's worth it. I'd have to be pretty rich before considering that price worth it, and even then I'd have to weigh the cons of traffic, long lines to get in the stadium, all of the downtime during the game, etc.

"I’m never under the assumption that you draft for need. You draft the best available football player on the board. ... Because, in the long run, they are the ones who will help you win the most games." - Scot McCloughan

...it's also exploiting a fanbase that tolerated this owner's ineptitude and steaming pile of turd for a product over the last several seasons. Now that there's something to get excited about... prices shoot up.

It's kinda like the firearms market right now. Demand is high, so many retailers are jacking prices up sky high to take advantage. It's all perfectly legal, it's supply and demand, it's the market, blah blah blah... but consumers will remember who gouged and who didn't.

I've been on the fence about making the trip down to DC for a game. Definitely watching from home next season.

Meh... You see more from home, anyway. Somehow, I don't think there's much of a risk of folks suddenly becoming Raven's fans...

...it's also exploiting a fanbase that tolerated this owner's ineptitude and steaming pile of turd for a product over the last several seasons. Now that there's something to get excited about... prices shoot up.

It's kinda like the firearms market right now. Demand is high, so many retailers are jacking prices up sky high to take advantage. It's all perfectly legal, it's supply and demand, it's the market, blah blah blah... but consumers will remember who gouged and who didn't.

I've been on the fence about making the trip down to DC for a game. Definitely watching from home next season.

Meh... You see more from home, anyway. Somehow, I don't think there's much of a risk of folks suddenly becoming Raven's fans...

If they jump the bandwagon like that, they were never one of us anyway.

...it's also exploiting a fanbase that tolerated this owner's ineptitude and steaming pile of turd for a product over the last several seasons. Now that there's something to get excited about... prices shoot up.

It's kinda like the firearms market right now. Demand is high, so many retailers are jacking prices up sky high to take advantage. It's all perfectly legal, it's supply and demand, it's the market, blah blah blah... but consumers will remember who gouged and who didn't.

I've been on the fence about making the trip down to DC for a game. Definitely watching from home next season.

Meh... You see more from home, anyway. Somehow, I don't think there's much of a risk of folks suddenly becoming Raven's fans...

If they jump the bandwagon like that, they were never one of us anyway.

Man, whatever happened to sacrificial loyalty?

Tha's wadImtalkinbout!

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